About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’m in the early stages of a couple podcast listener measurement methods. Methods that put the control in the hands of the listener – not the podcaster or a third-party – and the metrics in the hand of the podcaster, not a third-party.
I’m trying one of the methods out with a small handful of my favorite podcasts. So, if you’re one of those podcasters – you now know for sure that I’m subscribed.
In First Crack Podcast #77, Erik Dahl mentions his ‘media bag’. A bag of recording devices and gear ready to document any event.
Got me thinking about consolidating all my gear more intelligently in a single, unified, media bag.
First step – inventory:
Seems like there’s a few things missing (like the obvious digital still/video camera).
What’s in your media bag?
All you need to know about tonight’s episode; BJ & Tyler weren’t eliminated, the Dentists were.
Everything else – aside from the wrestling – blah.
Garrick’s Favorites
The Smith 3 – Kris Smith (Croncast, Pale Groove Studios), Erik Dahl and Garrick Van Buren (Working Pathways, First Crack Podcast) – are back and we run through the state of podcasting, including;
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Conrad, might I suggest the First Crack podcast
I’m in the market for a server-side torrent generator. Something I can point a URL at and will spit out a torrent file.
Google’s coming up empty on this. I know one’s out there. Do you know where it is?
Auto RSS Torrent looks promising.
We’re watching some Degrassi Junior High tonight and a bit about the U.S. invading Canada came up. Now, it may surprise you that my public school education didn’t discuss the multiple times we invaded (War of 1812, Fenian Raids of the 1860s), or planned to, our northern neighbors.
First I heard of an invasion was Canadian Bacon. Oh, and History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History.
(related note: Numb3rs is written just like Degrassi)
Chevy decided to open up the art direction of their new Tahoe to the world. Brilliant idea. This falls under the ‘spell your name right’ category of publicity.
From my perspective, it doesn’t matter if people create ads critical of the vehicle, they’re still creating ads for the vehicle. Which means they’re talking about the vehicle.
The image above is my experiment with the clips GM made available. Click it to make your own.
And if anyone knows how to pull a copy of it locally, lemme know. Thanks.
Recently, I was asked for a list of the top 25 podcasts. Period. Like a list of top foods, another attribute is required to have any value (fruits, husband-wife chatter, technology, frozen, music, independent, sparkly).
I’ve said it before – Podcasting is more like voicemail than radio.
Forrester’s Charlene Li backs me up with two points:
I’m pretty impressed that with all the hype, the interesting things with podcasting are still happening outside the scope of the analysts and the podcast directories.
More on the podcasting-as-voicemail from Rex Hammock:
Dave nails a mentality that’s troubled me for years. Whether marketers and their customers or agencies and their clients. There’s an underlying resentment rampant in the ‘creative’ world – and I just don’t get it.
Part of it feels like people in a job they’d rather not be in.
Part of it feels like the marketer’s resistance to committing to themselves into their customers’ lives and perspectives, i.e. a meaningful relationship.
Too often, it feels like marketers want to throw a grenade into a crowd of customers chatting comfortably.
Speaking of chatting. I spent an hour this afternoon talking with my insurance agent. We had a great time. Laughed a bunch, crunched some numbers, made some changes. She’s one of my favorite people. We wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for insurance (she was selling, I was buying). She knows quite a bit about me, my family, and my business – she needs to. I want her to.
If I got the slightest impression she resented doing business with me, I’d be pissed.
Listen to The Smith 3 on the State of Podcasting